{"id":28264,"date":"2026-03-09T19:32:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T00:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28264"},"modified":"2026-03-09T19:32:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T00:32:25","slug":"pie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28264","title":{"rendered":"PIE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you know, it is no longer acceptable in the United States to talk about DEI, which stands for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. Ever since the administration started gunning for DEI, I&#8217;ve been wondering what would replace it as a guiding principle.<\/p>\n<p>I think I have finally figured it out. The key is to observe our president, and see what truly matters to him.<\/p>\n<p>For example, it is no longer acceptable to ask for any special dispensation because of historical unfairness to black people. But now it <i>is<\/i> acceptable to ask for special dispensation because of historical unfairness to white South African Afrikaans people.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s take another example. Apparently when you start a Big Beautiful war these days, the first thing you need to do is kill 165 schoolgirls with a Big Beautiful tomahawk missile. To be fair, this is much more efficient than harming schoolgirls one by one on a friend&#8217;s secret island.<\/p>\n<p>There is something perverse about all of this, but I believe perversity is exactly the point. The goal seems to be to do everything possible to make America great again for white people, while preventing all those annoying non-white people from thinking that they also belong in the club.<\/p>\n<p>Of course any good policy needs a good acronym. I propose one that is short, accurate, and quite descriptive: PIE, or Perversity, Inequity and Exclusion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you know, it is no longer acceptable in the United States to talk about DEI, which stands for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. Ever since the administration started gunning for DEI, I&#8217;ve been wondering what would replace it as a guiding principle. I think I have finally figured it out. The key is to observe &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28264\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;PIE&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28264"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28265,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28264\/revisions\/28265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}